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Obedience Through Suffering Excerpt Christ as a man discovered what it is to cry out to God in fear and distress. The allusion to Gethsemane is unmistakable ( Matt.  26:36–46 ). He learned to say “thy will be done” when the will of God was the way of the cross. In answer to his prayer he was enabled to bear his trial just as he will enable believers to bear theirs ( 4:15–16 ). This statement serves to demonstrate how completely and unqualifiedly the Son of God became a man like other men, though without sin. Though he was the Son of God and a sinless man, he was not exempt from the principle that it is through suffering that a person discovers the true nature and cost of obedience ( vv.  8–10 ;  2:10 ). He was “a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” ( Isa. 53:3 ), and it is precisely that suffering and perfect obedience in suffering which fit him for his role as Savior and High Priest.  More Rayburn, Robert S. “ Hebrews .”   Evangelical Comm...

Obedience Through Suffering Though in their present state of spiritual immaturity the process of digestion will be more painful, solid food is urgently required to invigorate their flagging faith. Each of the elementary teachings (6:1–2) mentioned had a place in Judaism but had been invested with new significance in Christian preaching. These basics are not to be discarded, but neither are they sufficient. This sentence amounts to a ringing affirmation both of the obligation laid upon believers to cultivate their spiritual life and of the importance of doctrine to sanctification. Knowledge feeds faith. “Acts that lead to death” (lit. dead works) are not, as some have supposed, attempts to gain righteousness by means of works of the law or cultic performances, but simply sins in general, all evil thoughts and actions from which the conscience must be cleansed (9:14; cf. Rom. 6:21). Though the believer is obliged to pursue maturity, God’s grace and action are necessary (v. 1 rea...

Obedience Through Suffering Excerpt Christ as a man discovered what it is to cry out to God in fear and distress. The allusion to Gethsemane is unmistakable ( Matt.  26:36–46 ). He learned to say “thy will be done” when the will of God was the way of the cross. In answer to his prayer he was enabled to bear his trial just as he will enable believers to bear theirs ( 4:15–16 ). This statement serves to demonstrate how completely and unqualifiedly the Son of God became a man like other men, though without sin. Though he was the Son of God and a sinless man, he was not exempt from the principle that it is through suffering that a person discovers the true nature and cost of obedience ( vv.  8–10 ; 2:10 ). He was “a man of sorrows, and familiar with suffering” ( Isa. 53:3 ), and it is precisely that suffering and perfect obedience in suffering which fit him for his role as Savior and High Priest.  More Elwell, Walter A.  Evangelical Commentary on the Bible . ...